ballad has definitions from the fields of verse,writing,music,fine art
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[ noun ] (music,fine art) a narrative song with a recurrent refrain

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lay

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(Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)

He was also at_the_same_time gaining practical experience as a safe_breaker and highwayman , and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene_Geary , later committed to Chester_Asylum as a homicidal maniac , but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor .

(Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen Happy with the Blues....)

Though versatile and capable of turning_out a ballad lyric with the best of them , Mercer 's forte is a highly polished quasi folk wit .

Related terms

song minstrelsy

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[ noun ] (verse,writing) a narrative poem of popular origin

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lay

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(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

Does the writer know the difference between an `` ersatz '' ballad or tall_tale and a true product of the folk ?

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poem edda

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